Junior Designer

About the Studio: Our studio is a fast-paced skunkworks-style design team responsible for the end-to-end experience including digital and physical design of new businesses new products and new services. We move quickly experiment often and thrive on turning ambiguous problems into tangible solutions. Were looking for a curious adaptable and driven Junior Designer to join our team and grow alongside us as we envision and craft simple thoughtful enjoyable and compelling products and services for customers.

This is an incredible opportunity for an early-career designer to build a broad multidisciplinary skill set across physical and digital design disciplines in a high-energy small-team environment where every contributor wears multiple hats. Youll gain hands-on exposure to concepting and sketching low- to high-fidelity prototyping workshop facilitation and asset production across the full lifecycle of projects pilots and research initiatives all while being mentored by senior designers and cross-functional experts.

What youll do...

• Contributing to Design Innovation: Support the design of novel and unique experience solutions to meaningful customer problems helping identify design opportunities and actionable concepts that align with user needs business goals design principles and technical capabilities.
• Building Prototyping & Visualization Skills: Develop your craft in rough prototyping (build to learn) and design visualization with growing emphasis on physical enablers. Youll iterate on design solutions based on customer user and system feedback under the guidance of senior team members.
• Supporting Insight-Driven Design: Assist in translating customer and user insights into desirable feasible product concepts a core skill youll continue to sharpen as you grow in the role.
• Engaging Across the Full Design Process: Actively participate in every stage of the design process from inspiration and research to prototyping and vision communication gaining exposure to integrated digital-physical experience design across brand products and services.
• Developing Systems Thinking: Begin applying systems thinking to physical experience design learning how touchpoints connect across a service journey for consumer and business applications.
• Practicing Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teammates including engineering planning and research to build strong working relationships and develop the versatility needed to move fluidly between disciplines in a small agile studio.

• Learning Experience Content Strategy: Support the design and iteration of experience concepts helping confirm feasibility within program constraints while learning how strategy translates into execution.

Why This Role: This position is designed for growth. Youll be embedded in a skunkworks-style studio that values speed experimentation and versatility over rigid specialization an ideal environment for a junior designer looking to rapidly expand their multidisciplinary capabilities across physical digital and service design.

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree in industrial design transportation design or a related field.
• Some experience (internship co-op academic or entry-level) in a consumer product industry transportation sector or supplier design consultancy or similar field.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite design tools.
• Familiarity with at least one 3D modeling software application (e.g. Alias AutoStudio Rhino or Blender).
• Familiarity with relevant presentation applications (e.g. PowerPoint Keynote or similar).

Even better you may have...

• 02 years of industrial design or transportation design studio experience (internships and academic project work welcomed).
• Strong curiosity creativity and eagerness to experiment with features and functional solutions.
• Emerging ability to translate customer and research inputs into relevant desirable product concepts.
• Developing communication skills through presentation and storytelling.
• Growing product design aesthetic sensibility.
• Foundational sketching visualization modeling and presentation skills.
• Some 2D application skills (e.g. Photoshop Illustrator etc.).
• Some 3D application skills (e.g. Alias AutoStudio VRED Rhino Maya or Blender).
• Genuine enthusiasm for contributing to projects in a multidisciplinary team environment with a willingness to stretch beyond a single design discipline.
• Hands-on experience or interest in building low-fidelity prototypes (e.g. cardboard foam core wood laser cutting 3D printing) and a desire to learn production and prototyping methods.
• Interest in learning to translate design vision into animated story-form using digital presentation tools (including AI visualization tools).
• A growth mindset and willingness to take on new challenges as design proposals move from concept toward production.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $95600-$145000.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color age sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability status or protected veteran the United States if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability please call 1-.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

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